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I THOUGHT that it was only prudent right proper and fitting for the People to have some idea of WHAT Zaji really did to invoke the anger of the Republican controlled Legislature.  After communicating with Zaji and reading some of the comments I know that it was necessary for me to follow up with a …

I recently enjoyed a series of articles from the National Air and Space Museum, a branch of the American Smithsonian Institute and have condensed one of them for your reading pleasure. Enjoy “How World War II Killed the Flying Boat” by Bob van der Linden. Afterward, you might want to visit their we…

In their new book, “The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State,” Deirdre McCloskey and Alberto Mingardi recount the following story: When the workers’ paradise that was the USSR still existed, economist Gerald Nordquist of the University of Iowa was invited to visit the Soviet Union and meet with its ec…

WHEN you mix the H-2B (foreign worker) program with the crooked politics of casinos along with the wayward ways of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory just north of Guam, you get quite a noxious stew. But that’s not our lede, which is: “Imperial Pacific Ca…

DONALD J. Trump will be re-elected president of the United States, and here is why.  Article II, Section 1, ¶2 of the U.S. Constitution states: “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representa…

The National Apprenticeship Act of 2020 has really opened the door for funding a Systemic Workforce Transition Plan that can be a real game-changer for the CNMI.  According to Delegate Kilili’s Webpage: “the Act incorporates his bill, H.R. 8320, the Outlying Area Apprentice Expansion Act, which inv…

The Governor might have been on the list of those who are being pardoned by the President by now if he had pushed and promoted his innocence two years ago for a speedy process & trial instead of getting the Trump administration to delay everything. Even if he was convicted, the Governor would s…

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. That is not just physics. It is also political. And I think we will be starting to see the reaction to total control of politics by Republican in the Commonwealth to change back to Democrats in the coming years beginning this election. Speak…

I RECALL a time a few years back, as I enjoyed an éclair and cup of coffee in Herman’s Bakery, two islanders at another table discussed tourists. One complained that because of them, prices had gone up, there was too much traffic and the beaches were always crowded with foreigners. His friend agree…

The use of geographical terms such as “island” does not accurately reflect the “proper designation of a city or state” in our Federal System of Government. The confusion over our Governmental Responsibilities that should be shared between the “State Legislature and the Local Municipal Councils” nee…